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Given the position we were in in the summer. The Cannon signing is starting to look at bit stange if he is out for so long.
I think it was 6 weeks initial and that would have been fine...but are we going to see him before Christmas?
Miles Away
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Wilf out for a wee bit, misses QPR, possibly more but nothing serious.
Cannon training with first team, but being handled carefully.
Kasey close, may make the squad tomorrow.
No update on Praet. Still out.
Generally speaking we are light in midfield in my opinion. Can't seem to get a rest to Winks or KDH.
Cannon training with first team, but being handled carefully.
Kasey close, may make the squad tomorrow.
No update on Praet. Still out.
Generally speaking we are light in midfield in my opinion. Can't seem to get a rest to Winks or KDH.
camberwell fox
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Hopefully Winks and KDH will rest in the game tomorrow
H T B
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It’s more the impending suspension for the Leeds game if KDH or Winks get booked tomorrow.
popillius
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Why are Leeds being touted as a 'big' game? They've been shit for many a game this season and I don't think we need to mess about resting players to make sure they are fit or available for that specific game. We should be beating that lot without Winks or KDH if it comes to it. Momentum is a wonderful engine.
Graz
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Well they're 3rd in the league you see, while we are 1st.
In the Championship, the top two teams at the end of the season get promoted automatically. Meanwhile the teams that finish 3rd-6th have to enter something called "the playoffs" which is a bit of a wildcard at the end of the season and you never know whether you can recall Joey for them or not, so it's best avoided if you can.
As we would rather get automatic promotion than enter the playoffs, and to do so we need to stay ahead of 3rd place, which we can achieve by getting more points than they do, then it makes sense that our games against the current 3rd placed team, would have extra importance. As they are, as the table would have it, the biggest threat at any given time to our place in the top two positions of the league. Anytime we, as 1st placed team, beat a team in 3rd place, we're increasing our chances of promotion significantly.
I hope that helps x
They've also been good this season. They won at Ipswich. It's potentially one of the most difficult games we'll have this season.
bocadillo
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Didn't I hear that they're nearer to the relegation places than they are to us?
popillius
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As much as you show some understanding of process, you show very little if any understanding of the point that was being made. Where Leeds sit in the table is irrelevant to whether we need to 'rest' players ro beat them; we don't. They are still a considerable many points behind us and we still have a considerably better squad of players than they do, thus, 'saving' players specifically for this game because they may be a little better than, a few dreadful teams makes no sense. This is the same Leeds team that may have been Ipswich (whilst still conceding 3) but who have also drawn with Sheff Weds and Cardiff, and lost to Saints and Stoke whilst being luck to sneak a win against Bristol City.
We don't need to save players like it's sone massive game, it really isn't. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is always a pretty dumb idea.
There, now that I've explained it a little more simply for you, it may make my first post a little easier for you to comprehend. Feel free to wind your yourself back up, turn around and have another go though.
popillius
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They are.
Massive, season defining game against the big boys this.... our cup final.
popillius
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They did win at Ipswich, but conceded three times. They have also drawn against Cardiff. And Sheffield Wednesday. And lost to Saints. And Stoke. And scraped past a poor Bristol City side who should have had a least a point out of that game.
Like I say, saving players for this game with the situation as it stands is wafflebollocks. We are going to lose a few this season so let's at least try and win the easiest ones by playing our better players instead of leaving them out in case Leeds happen to turn up for this game.
City Fan
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I can feel Pop’s excitement from here.
tedfoxxx
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So you’re approximately three inches away….
Championship
| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Leicester | 44 | 94 |
| 2 | Leeds Utd | 45 | 90 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 44 | 90 |
| 4 | Southampton | 45 | 84 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 45 | 73 |
| 6 | West Brom | 45 | 72 |
| 7 | Hull City | 45 | 70 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 45 | 66 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 44 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 44 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 45 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 45 | 62 |
| 13 | Swansea City | 45 | 57 |
| 14 | Watford | 45 | 56 |
| 15 | Sunderland | 45 | 56 |
| 16 | Millwall | 45 | 56 |
| 17 | QPR | 45 | 53 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 45 | 53 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 45 | 50 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 45 | 50 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 45 | 48 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 45 | 47 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 45 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 45 | 24 |
